Sidney Blumenthal

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  • Bush's European disaster

    The president's trip was a pageant of disdain, delusion and provocation masquerading as a respite from his troubles at home.
  • The Libby lobby's pardon campaign

    Having never expressed remorse for his crime, Scooter Libby instead enlisted his neoconservative friends to win him reduced prison time.
  • America is not Bush

    The damage the president has done to our country's reputation can be rebuilt -- by those who uphold our Founding Fathers' ideals.
  • Wolfowitz's tomb

    A lead architect of the Iraq war, he believed shock and awe would transform the Middle East. But his policies failed -- along with his tenure at the World Bank.
  • All hail the king

    Under Bush, loyalty has reigned supreme. But as his presidency unravels, his obligation to his faithful servants -- from Gonzales to Wolfowitz -- has become perilously relative.
  • The impertinent prince

    Bush plays naughty boy to the queen at his not-so-royal state dinner. But all those white ties couldn't hide his low poll numbers.
  • George Tenet, spook for all seasons

    The former CIA chief seems strangely oblivious that his self-serving defense is shredding the remains of his reputation.
  • From Norman Rockwell to Abu Ghraib

    To understand how Bush justifies a torture policy that is the bane of our nation, consider the sentimental cowboy art that decks his Oval Office walls.
  • Wolfowitz's girlfriend problem

    Not only did the World Bank president find his companion Shaha Ali Riza a cushy job in the State Department, but she received a security clearance -- unprecedented for a foreign national.
  • Upending the Mayberry Machiavellis

    It's up to Congress to save the executive branch from Bush's and Rove's radical experiment to transform it forever.
  • Matthew Dowd's not-so-miraculous conversion

    Is the former Bush pollster a true believer turned disillusioned critic, or was he an opportunist from the get-go?
  • Follow the e-mails

    The discovery of a previously unknown treasure chest of e-mails buried by the Bush administration may prove to be as informative as Nixon's secret White House tapes.
  • What Bush is hiding

    In the U.S. attorney scandal, Alberto Gonzales gave orders, but he also took them -- from Karl Rove, who plotted to turn the federal criminal justice system into the Republican Holy Office of the Inquisition.
  • All roads lead to Rove

    The White House political director was clearly at the center of the partisan plot to fire U.S. attorneys, despite the administration's clumsy attempts to pretend otherwise.
  • Libby and the White House book club

    While Cheney's former aide prays for a presidential pardon, Bush and Rove hold forth in their neocon salon, and the coverup continues.
  • How Cheney bombed in Afghanistan

    The vice president slinks home from a disastrous trip where a failed assassination attempt was only the loudest proof that his war policies have emboldened al-Qaida and the Taliban.
  • Libby's last disinformation campaign

    Not only did Scooter's defense rely on emotion over facts, but it appealed to the jury to dismiss the craft of journalism as false by nature.
  • Libby's cynical defense

    In the courtroom, I watched Libby's lawyers grill Bob Woodward and Robert Novak, trying and failing to obscure the charges against the vice president's man.
  • The Pentagon's not-so-little secret

    As the president and Republicans continue to hype the surge -- and stifle debate about it -- Bush's own war planners are preparing for failure in Iraq.
  • How Libby became Cheney's pawn

    The vice president knew the intelligence for the Iraq war was cooked. So he launched his aide to smear the man who took the information public.
  • State of indifference

    Unlike past presidents dealing with the consequences of war, Bush has walled himself off from the public and the Congress it elected.
  • The fighting side of McCain

    Hitching his political wagon to Bush has hurt the senator's chances to become president. But as his political colleagues can attest, it's the Republican front-runner's volatile temper that may derail his Straight Talk Express for good.
  • Shuttle without diplomacy

    After signaling support for James Baker's Iraq proposals, Condi caved and stood faithfully by the president's failing policies -- assuring her irrelevance, and that of the State Department.
  • No time to heal

    Ford's posthumous condemnation of the Iraq war shows that the struggle for the soul of the GOP begun in the Nixon years is as relevant now as ever.
  • Behind Bush's "new way forward"

    A battered group of neocons delivered the president his latest war plan, letting him reject the grave warnings of the Iraq Study Group and deny that we're losing the war.
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